Ethanol is big business - especially for railroads! The Processing Center is the heart of any ethanol plant. Within its corrugated-metal walls, corn is milled, cooked and broken down into its basic components, ready for transformation into ethanol. After fermentation, the mixture returns to the building where it's filtered and condensed into essentially pure ethanol ready to be piped into storage tanks.
 
Ethanol traffic touches almost every corner of the North American rail network - from the vast cornfields and wheat fields of the midwest to busy petroleum terminals in large cities. Long trains of identical tank cars and huge strings of covered hoppers moving grain and ethanol byproducts have become an important part of the railroad landscape. It should touch your post-1980s model railroad too!
 
This kit is a necessary addition at the center of an ethanol-producing complex. The kit includes the main structure with rooftop vents, piping, distillation towers, and appropriate tanks. While based on an ethanol processing facility, this kit also looks at home as part of a modern food or chemical processing plant. As shown, the Processing Center measures 13-3/8 x 11-9/16 x 5-1/2" 34 x 29.3 x 14cm. Use the Processing Center with Cornerstone industrial buildings.
 

• Great addition to 1980s and later railroads
• Use with ethanol and other food processing facilities
• Outside stairway and roof vent details
• three distillation towers
• Five tanks
• Easy-to-build plastic kit
• Molded in appropriate colors